compiled by Lauren Langdon

Below, is a list of candidates on the Kansas ballot for the Nov. 6 election. To read about the candidates on the Missouri ballot go here. If you are still unsure which candidate you agree with the most, take a quiz at isidewith.com to find out. All information, below, about the candidate’s views were taken directly from their official websites.

Candidates for President

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President Barack Obama

President Obama — photo courtesy of MCT Campus

Running mate: Joe Biden

Party: National Democratic Party

Religion: Christian

Views:

Health care: “President Obama believes that quality, affordable health insurance you can rely on is a key part of middle-class security. By putting a stop to insurance company abuses, Obamacare is giving millions of Americans peace of mind…The health care law that President Obama passed… stops insurance companies from arbitrarily capping and cancelling our coverage, and provides access to recommended preventive care without co-pays or deductibles. It strengthens Medicare for our seniors and it helps young people get the health insurance they need.”
Foreign policy: “President Obama has restored America’s standing across the globe and kept his promise to be a strong and responsible leader on foreign policy… He has brought together international coalitions to confront shared challenges, such as Iran’s nuclear program… President Obama kept his promise to end the war in Iraq and bring our troops home.”
Energy: “We are less reliant on foreign oil than at any time in the last 20 years, and President Obama has a plan to further cut oil imports in half by 2020. By developing all of our resources, we can create jobs and make America more energy independent.”
Immigration: “President Obama recognizes that our immigration system is broken, and he’s taking steps to make immigration policy more fair, efficient, and just. He is committed to working with Congress to pass comprehensive immigration reform and the DREAM Act.”
Taxes: “President Obama cut taxes for every working American, and is fighting to keep taxes for middle-class families low. Now, he’s working to simplify the tax code while asking millionaires and billionaires to pay their fair share…President Obama has cut taxes for every working American, saving the typical middle-class family $3,600 in taxes over his first term.”

Mitt Romney

Running mate: Paul Ryan

Party: National Republican Party

Religion: Mormon

Views:

Health care: “Mitt Romney will issue an executive order that paves the way for the federal government to issue Obamacare waivers to all fifty states. He will then work with Congress to repeal the full legislation as quickly as possible. In place of Obamacare, Mitt will pursue policies that give each state the power to craft a health care reform plan that is best for its own citizens. The federal government’s role will be to help markets work by creating a level playing field for competition.”
Foreign policy: “When America is strong, the world is safer. It is only American power—conceived in the broadest terms—that can provide the foundation for an international system that ensures the security and prosperity of the United States and our friends and allies…Our friends and allies will not have doubts about where we stand and what we will do to safeguard our interests and theirs. Neither will our rivals, competitors, and adversaries. The best ally world peace has ever known is a strong America.”
Energy: “Mitt Romney will make America an energy superpower, rapidly and responsibly increasing our own production and partnering with our allies Canada and Mexico to achieve energy independence on this continent by 2020. This will require genuine support for increased energy production, a more rational approach to regulation, and a government that facilitates private-sector-led development of new energy technologies by focusing on funding research and removing barriers, rather than chasing fads and picking winners and losers.”
Immigration: “Mitt Romney will implement a national immigration strategy that bolsters the U.S. economy, ensures our security, keeps nuclear families together, addresses the problem of illegal immigration in a civil and resolute manner, and carries on America’s tradition as a nation of legal immigrants.”
Taxes: “Reducing and stabilizing federal spending is essential, but breathing life into the present anemic recovery will also require fixing the nation’s tax code to focus on jobs and growth. To repair the nation’s tax code, marginal rates must be brought down to stimulate entrepreneurship, job creation, and investment, while still raising the revenue needed to fund a smaller, smarter, simpler government.”

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Gary Johnson

Running mate: James P. Gray

Party: National Libertarian Party

Religion: non-practicing Lutheran

Views:

Health care: “Reduced costs and better service are what a free, functional marketplace will provide – if the government stays out of the way. Health care is no exception. Competition, price transparency, and the innovation that will result from a robust marketplace will accomplish the fundamental goals of affordability and access in ways the government cannot possibly accomplish.”
Foreign policy: “Maintaining a strong national defense is the most basic of the federal government’s responsibilities. However, building schools, roads, and hospitals in other countries are not among those basic obligations. Yet that is exactly what we have been doing for much of the past 10 years. Given trillion-dollar deficits, America simply cannot afford to be engaged in foreign policy programs that are not clearly protecting U.S. interests. There is nation-building and rebuilding to be done right here at home.”
Energy: “Affordable energy is critical not only to our quality of life, but to economic prosperity…The government should simply stay out of the business of trying to promote or “manage” energy development. The marketplace will meet our energy needs in the most economical and efficient manner possible – if government will stay out of the way.”
Immigration: “Legal immigration should focus on making it easier and simpler for willing workers to come here with a temporary work visa, pay taxes, contribute to society, and fill jobs as the market demands…With workable employer verification systems, smarter border enforcement, and common sense, a national problem can be turned into a national benefit.”
Taxes: “Balancing the budget will mean making some serious changes in Washington, but these will be the corrections America needs to remain a free, prosperous, and secure nation.”

Chuck Baldwin

Running mate: Joseph Martin

Party: National Reform Party

Religion: Baptist

Views:

Health Care: “I cannot say it forcefully enough: the newly created Obamacare bills are among the most evil and most reprehensible laws ever passed in Congress, the result of which will destroy quality health care (except for the rich and powerful); create perhaps the largest federal bureaucracy (complete with ubiquitous government enforcers) ever seen; increase the size and scope of the IRS to harass, seize, and imprison; and drive up health care costs, federal spending, federal deficits, and, yes, taxes.”
Foreign Policy: “While corporations doing business with the military-industrial complex will reap huge profits, America’s continued foreign interventionism is going to bring us to the brink of World War III. Furthermore, it is the “we are at war” mantra that is used to justify a burgeoning police state in America.”
Immigration: “What both Presidents Bush and Obama refuse to acknowledge is the devastating effects that illegal immigration inflicts upon the overall health and safety of the people of United States. In strict financial terms, the numbers are staggering…Add all of the various costs to U.S. taxpayers for illegal aliens and the total is a whopping $338 billion each year.”
Taxes: “I believe the federal government taxes too much, spends too much, lies too much, and snoops too much into the personal lives of the American people…It is my studied opinion that as long as pastors and churches allow themselves to be held captive by the IRS and its godless 501c3 corporation status, a spiritual revival will never take place in this country!”

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Candidates for U.S. House of Representatives

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Kevin Yoder

Party: Kansas Republican Party

Religion: Methodist

Views:

Health care: “I voted to repeal and defund this bad legislation that will drive up costs, increase the deficit, grow bureaucracy and lower the standards of health care that Americans expect. I will work to build true health care reform that focuses on free market competition, patient choice, and high quality of care.”
Foreign policy: “Today we are confronted with the most daunting set of security challenges we have faced since the cold war. We must do everything we can to support the men and women who are protecting us at home and overseas.”
Energy: “Creating an infrastructure that provides abundant cheap clean energy and the free movement of goods and services is crucial to the future competitiveness of the U.S. economy. I believe by encouraging and harnessing the innovative power of private industries, we can do this.”
Immigration: “Controlling the flow of immigrants into our country’s borders is both a national security and economic issue. We must eliminate incentives to illegal immigrants by building greater cooperation with businesses to ensure illegals are not employed, restricting illegals access to public services, and by strengthening the legal immigration process by supporting measures to increase the speed and efficiency of immigration system and increasing the number of H-1b visas.”
Taxes: “Middle class Americans are struggling to make ends meet and every year they are forced to navigate their way through a cumbersome and broken tax system. I believe it is time to give American taxpayers a break by letting them keep more of their own hard-earned money.”

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Joel Balam

Party: Libertarian Party of Kansas

Religion: Christian

Views:

Health care: “If elected, I will support and vote for repealing any federal health legislation that infringes upon the rights of citizens to choose or not choose any particular doctor or medical insurance plan…If elected, I will support tort reform in our civil justice system which would ease the burden of insurance policy holders who are paying exorbitant premiums.”
Foreign policy: “We must tell Congress and the White House to stop exporting our manufacturing jobs, forcing our factories to close, and flooding our markets with goods made in China and elsewhere.”
Energy: “We must look at our options and seriously consider the vast resources we have right here at home. If elected to Congress, I will support a proposal to open new areas for responsible offshore drilling in Alaska and the Gulf of Mexico. I will also support and vote for the Keystone Pipeline Plan legislation.”
Immigration: “If elected, I will support and immigration bill which includes an opportunity for undocumented immigrants to legalize their status after passing a criminal background check and paying fines.”
Taxes: “I will support and vote for the Fair Tax Proposal, H.R.25, to effectively reduce taxes, increase government revenue, and bring true tax relief to all hard-working Americans…to keep more of what they earn. Furthermore, I will work diligently to reduce the waste of valuable time and resources.”